Senior Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs, a remote-first, open-source company, as a Frontend Engineer based in Germany. You will be part of the Grafana IRM squad, working on business-critical services that help Grafana and other organizations respond to incidents. Your responsibilities include actively influencing the roadmap, delivering new features, contributing to open-source projects, mentoring team members, and collaborating with designers. You will work with technologies like React, TypeScript, and others, and build intuitive products for customers. The role requires experience in frontend development, collaboration with design teams, and delivering projects in a self-driven manner. Bonus points are given for experience with Grafana and Prometheus, microservices, and Golang. Grafana Labs offers a remote-first culture, transparent communication, and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• Experience collaborating with Product, UX and graphic designers to turn their designs into great user experiences
• Implement visual designs using clean, reusable components
• Expand and improve our core libraries that other teams and the plugin ecosystem depend on
• Some experience with delivering projects - from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas, all the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands, in a self-driven way
• Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud
• Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
• You are a motivated self starter with a bias towards action
• You are customer focused
• We build everything with our users in mind
• You produce work incrementally, shipping fast and iterating
• You have a passion for creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
• Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
• Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a team. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Good communication skills are a must
• Technologies you will be working with: React, TypeScript, Webpack, Jest, Cypress

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
• Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
• Embrace our open-source culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall within your team’s scope
• Mentor and support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
• Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

• Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
• Familiarity with being on-call and performing operations/SRE tasks or with the concept of infrastructure as code
• Willingness to go full-stack and expand your scope from frontend to backend and other areas of the system as your experience and expertise grows
• Experience with Golang, Python or other similar programming languages

Benefits

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do
• In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable
• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)